Genesis 8:13-22 ▼

13 In the six hundred and first year of Noah's life, during the first month, the flood water began to evaporate from the land. Noah then removed the ark's cover and saw that the surface of the land was drying.

14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the ground was dry.

15 God spoke to Noah,

16 |It's time for you, your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives who are with you to leave the ark.

17 Bring out with you every living creature—including the flying creatures, animals, and everything that crawls on the ground—so they may disperse throughout the land, be fruitful, and multiply throughout the earth.|

18 So Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives emerged.

19 Every animal, every crawling thing, every flying creature, and everything that moves on the earth emerged from the ark by groups.

20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings on it from every clean animal and every clean bird.

21 When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, he told himself, |I will never again curse the land because of human beings—even though human inclinations remain evil from youth—nor will I destroy every living being ever again, as I've done.

22 |Never again, as long as the earth exists, will sowing and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night ever cease.|